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[john-in-france]

@Jtav: Nice backstory idea!

[jtav]

@Jtav: Nice backstory idea!

Thanks. I think I got so set on the idea that a Cullen romance had to have templar/mage drama that I was trying to force things I didn't feel.

[LolaLei]

See, this is why I never plan out any of my protagonist's until I get into the CC, make the character and then play it by ear, otherwise you end up disappointed or having to try and come up with a new backstory. Best way to do it is form your character's story as the game plays out and see what's on the table for ya.

[Tishina]

It's not discussed in-game, but by David Gaider. 
 
Initial post on templars and chastity:
http://forum.bioware...-2#entry3697948
Continuation:
http://forum.bioware...age-2?p=3698065
 
 

Thank you, I was wondering where people were getting that from since it never came up in game that I could tell, and obviously Aveline's marriage to a Templar meant they weren't absolutely celibate.

[john-in-france]

I now know that I'm getting old...typed Cullen into google and got lots of vampire hits.... ewwwwww.

[Tishina]

Thanks. I think I got so set on the idea that a Cullen romance had to have templar/mage drama that I was trying to force things I didn't feel.

Actually, I'm ex-military, so I absolutely understood where you were coming from in terms of fraternization as an issue. I think I just interpreted the advisor/companion relationships differently, more of a medieval (and often changeable) fealty of a noble to his/her lord/lady (which by definition involved military service and protection) rather than the more absolute power of a military officer over the enlisted.

[CuriousArtemis]

Returning briefly to share this... in doing research to see how likely it will be that someone will mod Cullen and/or Blackwall to be m/m romance-able, I came across the following:

 

 

Really, the "mwah!" at the end just makes it...

 

[Milan92]

Frostbite is said to be difficult to mod.

 

But everything can be modded.... eventually.

[john-in-france]

http://8tracks.com/s...crumbling-walls

 

Cullen Inquisitor inspired music track.

[Panda]

Everyone has such awesome backstories and ideas about their Inquisitors, they seem more and more like real people, flaws and all. Off the bat are any of your main ones pure self-inserts or do you just take bits and pieces of your own personality? or do you avoid any similarities atall?

 

 

I don't avoid similarities but I don't necessarily take pieces of my personality to my characters either. All my characters are pretty different from each other and I actually try to make them different as well since I want to play game in different ways. I get ideas from other characters from various medias, I think what I'd like to do myself, backstories give me some ideas as well and some ideas just pop in my head randomly XD

 

So far all of my four different characters are very different.

 

I have qunari Valpur. She's warrior woman who kicks-ass but under her cold exterior she's pretty friendly person. I got idea for her from some badass womens and girls from animes actually ^^

 

I got inspiration for dalish Tamarin from zodiac that I stumbled one time during cullenite chat so his personality is based on that zodiac. I'm pretty bored with dalish elves though so I came up with story how he hates being one and his clan is tired of his whining and sends him to spy just to get rid of him.

 

Skye is someone I wanted to do since qunaris were confirmed. He was supposed to be she.. an optimistic pro-mage romancing Cullen. This because I wanted to discuss and debate with Cullen a lot during DAI since I loved that in DA2. That didn't work out sadly ^^; He still has same personality but I'm romancing Cass with him.

 

Michal's idea I got from when devs somewhere said that some people see Inquisitor as Andraste or sth similar. So why not play an Inquisitor who himself thinks that Maker has chosen him to saviour of Thedas? Trevelyans backstory just made it better so now Michal will be very pro-chantry. After race-gating he changed for she and I'm going to romance Cullen with her. I'm pretty sure I will make her rogue or warrior though, I'd love to romance Cullen as mage but it doesn't fit to Michal.

[jtav]

Actually, I'm ex-military, so I absolutely understood where you were coming from in terms of fraternization as an issue. I think I just interpreted the advisor/companion relationships differently, more of a medieval (and often changeable) fealty of a noble to his/her lord/lady (which by definition involved military service and protection) rather than the more absolute power of a military officer over the enlisted.

You're right now that I think about it. I just couldn't get the mental image out of my head of morale going to pieces of morale going to pieces because the men thought I'd made a decision because we were sleeping together.

 

Dalish warrior. All better now.

[john-in-france]

I must say what intrigues me most about the whole Cullen romance is how we (Cullen and Quizzy) deal with the torture from Kinloch Hold, most of which was mental. When Solana arrives he admits that it was his unrequited love for her that the demons used against him, he in turn is shown using his faith against the demons. This is a very strong individual, Cullen has to be, to have withstood that type of temptation. I think that will be his hang up, he doesn't want to be caught that way again...it will be all or nothing.

 

That's just how I read it anyway, and what I'm using in my Fanfic...

 

Pic is by Cherry-Layne

 

[LolaLei]

I must say what intrigues me most about the whole Cullen romance is how we (Cullen and Quizzy) deal with the torture from Kinloch Hold, most of which was mental. When Solana arrives he admits that it was his unrequited love for her that the demons used against him, he in turn is shown using his faith against the demons. This is a very strong individual, Cullen has to be, to have withstood that type of temptation. I think that will be his hang up, he doesn't want to be caught that way again...it will be all or nothing.

 

That's just how I read it anyway, and what I'm using in my Fanfic...

 

Pic is by Cherry-Layne

 

 

I think a large part of that would depend on whether or not your Warden was a Surana/Amell in the first place. If not then who knows.

[Hellion Rex]

Dragon Age ‏@dragonage

Interior decoration skill +10 #DAI pic.twitter.com/SJPuEQkUdx

[LolaLei]

Interesting that the Orlesian one has those lion statues up the back, just like Cullen's lion helmet... I'm starting to wonder if our boy isn't native Fereldan at all. Maybe they changed his place of birth or something?

[PrincessSparklefists]

Ooh, pretty!
Well, that's not really the case for the tevinter one, but hey, some people are into death spikes!

[Hellion Rex]

Those damn Guardian statues are back from DA2 in the Tevinter one.

[The Elder King]

Those damn Guardian statues are back from DA2 in the Tevinter one.

I suspected this. Kirkwall was an ancient Tevinter city.
Between those, Orlais or Tevinter, though I hope for a dalish style .

[MacyNell]

 

Dragon Age ‏@dragonage

Interior decoration skill +10 #DAI pic.twitter.com/SJPuEQkUdx

*snip*

 

B. Orlesian, no doubts

[jtav]

Actually kind of digging the Tevinter for my qunari mage.

[Potato Cat]

Ha, I got them all wrong! I thought the Tevinter design would be the 'pro-Templar' choice, (of course forgetting the statues outside of the Gallows were Tevinter in origin), the Kirkwall design being the 'pro-Chantry/Circle' choice and the Orlesian design was the 'pro-mage'. That said, I was confused by own speculation for that last one.

[riverbanks]

Everyone has such awesome backstories and ideas about their Inquisitors, they seem more and more like real people, flaws and all. Off the bat are any of your main ones pure self-inserts or do you just take bits and pieces of your own personality? or do you avoid any similarities atall?

 

For myself, I put very little of me in my characters. I prefer to create fully realized fictional characters and roleplay different types of people, explore different personalities from my own, rather than playing myself over and over. For my DAI characters, pretty much the only thing they have in common with me is the average 30~something age, as the older I get in real life, the less appealing it is to play teenagers and 20-somethings. It's cute to play the unexpectedly heroic kid who's no idea what she's doing and saves the world by accident when you're a kid too, but I'm much more interested in seeing people with enough life experience under their belt saving the world with competence, careful planning and good leadership nowadays.

 

But other than that, all my PCs have completely different personalities, that don't necessarily reflect my own. In example, my female Trevelyan is a bit anti-mage, I'm not. My male Trevelyan is a bit anti-Templar, I'm not that either. My Dalish Inquisitor is bitterly anti-human. My dwarf is a greedy jerk, only cares about the clink of gold. My qunari is pragmatic and only respects strength, talking and diplomacy is for weaklings. I'm none of those things, but they're fun to roleplay and explore as personas so fundamentally different from myself.

 

I do admittedly enjoy overly thinking my heroes. My Wardens and Hawkes all have extensive headcanons covering their whole lives before, during and after their games, to the point where if you ask me what my X, Y or Z Warden were doing for their sweet sixteen, I know the answer. I wish I could go with the flow and let the game lead me to my character's story instead of the other way around, but I can't help writing a whole novel about their lives in my head before I even push play!

[The Elder King]

In terms of personality, there are just something in common between myself and Fëanor. We do share, howewer, opinions on various Thedosian arguments: his opinion on mages and templars, Chantry, Tevinter, the Qun, the human-elves, the Fade and its inhabitants, etc. are the same as mine.

[riverbanks]

Interesting that the Orlesian one has those lion statues up the back, just like Cullen's lion helmet... I'm starting to wonder if our boy isn't native Fereldan at all. Maybe they changed his place of birth or something?

 

I would just about die laughing if it turned out our little backwater mabari-smelling Fereldan noodle is super secretly a fancypants Orlesian, son of a great noble house forsaken his name for the Order and everything. He couldn't get any more cliché prince charming.

[Ananka]

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